Window sash and guide means



Jan- 24 R' T- WINDOW SASH AND GUIDE MEANS Original Filed June 4, 1929 INVENTOR.

' ATTORNEYS Patented Jan. 24, 1933 UNITED STATES ROY 'r. AXE, or SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR 'ro THE 0.1a. EDWARDS ooMPliN'y ING, or sYnAoUsE, NEW YORK, AconDoRATroN on NEW ,YoRK y it wINDow SASH AND GUI E MEANs Original application filed June 4, 1929, Serial No. 368,315. Divided and. this application ampute 1930. Serial o. 452,748.

This invention relates to window sash constructions and to guide means for wlndow sashes which are particularly applicable for vehicles asrailway cars, motor busses and the like. An object of the invention is, to prov1de a sash construction and guide means which are rigid, light, and comparatively narrow and highly eficient and durable 1n use.

A further object of the invention 1s toprovide a simple sash construction which will be weather-proof, and which will be free from rattles due to vibration of the railway car, motor bus, or the like. I

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention, reference 1s had to the accompanying drawing, in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is an elevation showing my 1mproved sash construction and guide means, parts being broken away to more clearly 1ndicate the arrangement.

Figure 2 is a section along the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

l designates the sash.

2 designates the stiles or upright members; 3, 4 the bottom and top members or ralls which are formed of sheet metal so that said members are hollow and of light weight.

The stiles and rails are formed in an suit-V a'ole manner to provide a channel 5wh1ch receives the margin of the pane 6, the margin of the pane being seated in a rubber channel 7 seated in the channel 5. One of the members or rails carries sash holder means, as the sash here shown is designed to be lowered into a well beneath the sill. The sash holder means are carried by the top rail 4.

The sash holder means designated generally as 11 are of the type shown in the parent application, Sr. No. 368,315, a latch bolt 8 projecting beyond the edges of the sash coacting with the upper part of the window guide to hold the sash in any desired posltion. These latch bolts are operated by the sash holder means 11, but since this forms no part of the present invention, a description of the operating mechanism which was described in the parent application, SrNo. 368,315,

necessary.

being spaced apart to form a slot 42 through whichthe sash slides. These sections are formed with overhanging portions 43 and 44 respectively, and the overhanging'portion 43 is provided by the metal sheeting 45 of the outer section 40.

Thesash guides extend above the slot 421'andthe guides 46 extend below'the slot 42. The bottom rail 3 of the sash is formed with the weather strip'47 along the bottom edge which coacts with said overhanging portions 43 and 44, the Weatherstrip extending beyond the inner and outer faces of the bottom rail and having an upturned flange'48 ato its out er edge extending between the outer face-of the bottom rail 3 and the inner edge of the overhanging portion 43 ofthe outer section of the sill so as to'form i joint-when the sash is closed. There is a depending window guide 46 at each side of the sash, and each of these guides is in the form of a channel for receiving the stiles 2 of the sash when the sash is open.

The sides of each channel 46 time outwardly toward the upper ends to guide the sash 6 therein. Each guide 46 is also provided with one or more compression devices for presslng against the stiles and holding the sash 4O and'4I designate outer and inner o pfos mg sections of the "sill construction, thesea Weather tight l from rattling when the sash is lowered below I the sill. Each compression device, as here illustrated, comprises a shoe 50 extending through a slot 51 in one side wall of each channel 46, the shoe having lugs 52 at its ends overlapping the outer sides of the slot 51, and these lugs are provided with openings which slidably receive studs 53 secured at like ends in one of the side walls of the channel 46 and at their'outer ends in an offset frame.

or brace strip 54 carried by one of the side walls of the channel 46. Compression springs 56 encircle the studs 53 and thrust against the ends of the shoe 50 and portion of the strip 54. 1

The sash, when closed, occupies the posi tions shown in Figures 1 and 2 with respect to the window frame. To lower the sash, the

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operator takes hold of the sash holder means 11 withdrawing the latches 8 from the upper frame andeither lets the sash drop, or lets it down gently into the wall or guides 46 be- 5 low the sash. The compression device or shoe 5O prevents violent dropping of thesash.

j While I have shown the preferred embodiment of my invention, various changes and modifications mayv be made without depart- 10 ing from the scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claim. What I claim is: r r

In a window construction, the combination of a window frame including a sill construe; V tion formed with a slot, and guides above and below the slot, a sash movable in the guides, the sill construction being formed with V flanges projecting toward the sash and over-v hanging the guides belowithe sill, a weather 2o strip overlying the lower edge of the bottom rail and having an angular portion at one edge thereof extending upwardly along; one of the upright faces of the bottom rail and ente'ring the space between one of theoverhanglng portions of the sill and the bottom rail, the weather strip also having a portion extending beyond the opposite upright face o ffthe-bottom rail into position to hook under the other overhanging portion of the sill,

,30 whereby when the sash is raisedinto closed position, the crevices between the bottom rail and the overhanging portions are closed by said weather strip.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga,'and'State of New York, this 14th day of May, 1930. w p w ROY T. AXE. 

